Stephen Pollard is an idiot. Like the rest of Britain's pathetic virtue-signalling Jewish 'leadership'

In May 2018 Jewish Chronicle editor Stephen Pollard joined with multiple antisemites in a blood libel against Israel, accusing the Jewish State of massacring 'Palestinian civilians' who were storming the Israeli border with Gaza (he blocked me on twitter for calling him out on this). He later issued an apology for his blood libel statement when it was proved that those killed were Hamas terrorists.  In today's Daily Express (where he is also an Editor) he says it’s wrong to call Muslim terrorists "Muslim terrorists" because it "implies that all Muslims are terrorists". Stephen Pollard is an idiot.

Pollard is part of the elitist clique who think they know what’s best for British Jews (and he’s by no means the worst). We have seen with the recent decision by the Jewish 'leadership'  to demonize and silence Colonel Richard Kemp and Melanie Phillips (see articles by Jonathan Hoffman and David Collier about this), that they will not tolerate anybody who dares raise concerns about Islamic antisemitism and terrorism, They have bought into the whole "Islamophobia" narrative in an attempt to appease people like Baroness Warsi (who claims to oppose antisemitism while being a vicious enemy of the Jewish state, whipping up antisemitic hatred of it among British Muslims). What started with the demonization of Tommy Robinson, Geert Wilders, Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer (all true friends of Israel and the Jewish people) and then Katie Hopkins and Douglas Murray, was never going to end with just them. Now they seek to silence anybody on the 'right' of politics who raises these concerns and even accuse anybody who supports them of being 'racists'.  So, while many of the Jewish community's best friends are shunned by the Jewish leadership, that same leadership is happy to work with (and even invite to communal events): Israel-hating agitators like Warsi, antisemitic anti-Israel leftist Muslims like Naz Shah, and any number of left-wing politicians and activists who supported both Corbyn and the boycott campaign against Israel.

The Board of Deputies, The Jewish Leadership Council, CST, the JC and even recently the CAA are all complicit in the "Islamophobia" narrative. They are failing Britan's Jews.

p.s. Oh what’s this? Naz "the Jews are rallying" Shah - who said "Israel should be moved to America" and that Islamic rape gang victims should "shut up for the sake of diversity"- was a guest at an event last week hosted by the Jewish News, The Board of Deputies and the JLC at the UK’s most prestigious Jewish community centre JW3 last week. Do you think they’d ever invite Tommy Robinson?

The BoD et al are fundamentally racists because they believe Muslims who are antisemitic have no agency over their antisemitism and hence cannot be held accountable for it. So, in their view Muslims must always be forgiven, whereas any white, 'right-wing' person who raises concerns about the Islamic threat is considered a 'racist' who can never be redeemed.


Why we must fear challenge and expunge the word Islamophobia

Exeter University Jewish Society and Israel Society - raising money for Islamic Relief

Two weeks ago I reported on Harry Markham's experiences with Bristol University Jewish Society - their policy of disassociating themselves with Israel and their leader pushing a narrative of "pervasive racism in Israel" and "Jewish settlers carrying out terrorist attacks".

Now Harry has alerted me to what is going on at Exeter University. Like Bristol, the Jewish Society and Israel Society there have rejected his offer to present Israel's case, but are perfectly happy to team up with those who seek Israel's destruction. In an act of supreme virtue-signalling (which would be comical if it wasn't true) they have decided, for "Charity Week", to join the Islamic Society in raising money for the 'charity' Islamic Relief.

If Jewish students really are determined to virtue-signal in this way, there are surely suitable Muslim charities they could have teamed up with (although why they would take precedence over, say Hindu or Sikh charities I have no idea). Unfortunately, Islamic Relief is not one of them. Those unaware of the dubious history of this 'charity' should look at this detailed report from the Middle East Forum that is summarised in this article. I have previously covered Islamic Relief on this blog when Norwood made a similarly incomprehensible decision to team up with them. Islamic Relief has long been accused of involvement in terrorism as reported here. In 2006 the Israeli Government outlawed Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) from its work in Judea and Samaria,  declaring that it was "designed to further Hamas's ideology among the Palestinian population" and in 2014 claimed that the 'charity' was involved in sending cash to Hamas. In 2014 HSBC cut its ties with IRW due to concerns over its terrorist links.  Even the United Arab Emirates banned IRW because of its terrorist links.


So Britain's Jewish student leadership regard dynamic, young unapologetic Zionists like Harry Markham as extremists to be censored, while cosying-up to (and now funding) terror-supporting Islamists.

See

• Unite Our Powers Chairty Week: Jewish students raising money for Islamic Relief
• The depressing state of Britain's Jewish students
• Islamic Relief: Charity/Extremism/Terror
• Norwood and Islamic Relief

The useless Board of Deputies and its new Public Affairs Officer

Just when you thought the Board of Deputies could not possibly get even more useless...

Not exactly what I'd expect from a person in charge of 'Public Affairs'.

Dec 2020 Update: Daniel Sugarman is the person who led the online lynching of Melanie Phillips for daring to write about how accusations of "Islamophobia" were being used to silence anybody raising concerns anout islamic antisemitism.

The depressing state of Britain’s Jewish students.

Harry Markham, the dynamic and brilliant young National Director of Herut UK and self-declared 'unapologetic Zionist' has offered several times to speak to Bristol University’s Jewish Society (one of the country’s biggest). They have never even responded to his requests and it appears they have a policy of disassociating themselves with Israel.

To gain some insights into this Yachadization of Britain's Jewish students, Harry alerted me to this public post on the Facebook page of Bristol University student Sabrina Miller. 

https://www.facebook.com/100002208381787/posts/2437338879683034

Sabrina is an active Jewish student at Bristol who has been “elected as an NUS delegate to represent the entire Bristol student body”. Despite the article title (“Being a Zionist on Campus”) and the promising beginning in which she says that campus Israel hatred she feared never materialized, it is clear that, whatever her thoughts about Israel before entering the University, her thoughts must have changed since she got there as she says:

After being forced to digest some really uncomfortable truths about Israel I am so grateful that I've been able to discuss the conflict with many people who don't preach that the IDF “is the most moral army in the world” or that “Israeli settlements aren’t a barrier to peace”

I invite people to read the comments on the article. For those who cannot access FaceBook, I reproduce the most relevant parts of the discussion between Sabrina and Harry Markham below. It is depressing to know that Sabrina, rather than Harry, may represent the future of British Jews (I have highlighted some of Sabrina's text).

Harry Markham: What are the "uncomfortable truths about Israel" you are talking about? Why are Israelis living in Judea and Samaria an obstacle to peace? If it was such an obstacle, why wasn't there peace from 1949 till 1967 when Jordanian Islamism made that region Judenrein?! This kind of appeasement doesn't work, Sabrina.

You write beautifully, but you now believe these false narratives.

Jews not in the Bristol Jsoc exec should be thoroughly outraged by your Jsoc and its sheer cowardice.

Sabrina Miller: Firstly, why do you keep attacking the JSOC committee because we don't agree with you on Israel. JSOC is so much more than Israel, we do so much for the jewish community here and calling us cowards because we're not right wing is neither true or helpful. Secondly we were all democratically voted in so whether or not you like it, Jews at Bristol support us and this committee..  So onto your first question of 'uncomfortable truths'. Uncomfortable truths include the racism that exists and pervades Israeli society. Those truths include listening to the impact that occupation has on the lives of Palestinians. Uncomfortable truths is learning about the terror attacks committed by Jewish settlers to name a few. Truths like 750 000 Palestinains were displaced during the independence war and many of them still live in refugee camps in Lebanon, Gaza, WB + other places * I believe in a 2 state solution. Like jews have a right to self determination so do Palestinians. Thus in my opinion settlements prevent the establishment of a future autonomous Palestinian state - hope that answers your questions xx

Harry Markham: 1. Your Jsoc and its refusal to do Israel/Zionist activity only contributes to antisemitism in Bristol. It is quite extraordinary that the voice of Jewish students at Bristol rather than taking a lead in the fight against antisemitism, it has become part of the problem.

2. I wholeheartedly agree that Jsoc should be more than Israel. But your Jsoc represents different parts of Jewish identity - and Zionism is part of it. I can think of no other reason than cowardice for your Jsoc not doing Zionist activity. And if those in your Jsoc don't like it, then just like how some don't like the religious part, they don't need to come to those events. But don't make Zionist students feel they have no representation.

3. Why is racism in Israel an uncomfortable truth? Like me, you strive to normalise Zionism and Israel, so why shouldn't Israel have societal issues like racism? Every nation in the world suffers from this cancer, Israel is no different. We have our problems, which country in the world doesn't have problems?

4. How can Israel occupy something which under international law belongs to them? The Mandate for Palestine 1922, later reaffirmed by Article 80 of UN law, means an Israeli presence is legal. Which law makes our presence illegal? Which law states our presence is that of "occupation"?

5. Which terror attacks?

6. Firstly, 750,000 is an overly inflated figure. The real number is around 550,000 - 600,000.

And let's look at this idea of "displacement" -

In 1937 and in 1947, a two state solution was proposed. The Arabs rejected this, Israel agreed to it. Arab leaders such as Azzam Pashra said on the day of Israeli independence, where Israel stated its commitment to live with all people in harmony, "This will be a war of extermination and to a momentous massacre which will be remembered like the Mongolian Massacres and the Crusades." Inspite of Israel's efforts at peace, Islamic intolerance meant this is what Israel was up against. And Israel had a duty to defend itself. There was no surgical effort to remove Arabs residing in Israel. This was a lie that arose from the myth of Deir Yassin "Massacre", which was used as a tool of fear by the Arab leaders to get the Arab population out of Israel, and return when Israel is destroyed. Just look at Haifa, in 1947 it had the second largest Arab population in the land. The Hagannah insisted the Arab population will stay, they even broke the festival of Passover in order to bake bread for the local Arab inhabitants. Sir Alan Cunningham, the British Commissionor of Palestine said, "British authorities in Haifa have formed the impression that totllal evacuation is being urged on the Haifa Arab quarters and that the townsfolk themselves are against it." The local British Police Commander noted in a letter "Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives."

And yes, they are living in nasty refugee camps. Israel has offered opportunities at resolving this such as the Lausanne proposal, however everytime the Arab leaders reject these proposals. Why?

Yassar Arafat's side, Sakhwe Abesh said, "To us, the refugee issue is the winning card toneuich means the end of the Israeli state." Or even Lt Geb Galloway, former director of UNRWA said, "It is perfectly clear that Arab nations do not want to solve the Arab refugee problem. They want to keep it ae an open score, as an affront against the UN and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don't give a damm whether refugees live or die."

The real injustice is your failure to speak about what happened in Hebron 1929 (67 Jews massacred), Arab Riots 1936 -1939 (over 400 Jews massacred). These are just two of many anti Jewish massacres in pre state Israel. These were real injustices - what you have given me is unsubstantiated and this historical revisionism has become the new Blood Libel.

You have the privilege of living in the diaspora. You are not living in Sderot facing regular rocket attacks. If you want to change Israel, move there. Don't be part of the problem and put Jews on the backfoot here in the UK by endorsing antisemitic narratives. Debunk them. Israelis don't want your North West London diaspora privilege, they want your support.

The ball is in your court...

See also:

• Fighting Academic Boycotts of Israel 
• Wow. This new UJS campaign is really going to force the antisemites to change their strategy 
• OneVoice at Birmingham University: Pity Britain's Jewish students if this is the best 'pro-Israel' advocacy they hear on campus
• Yachad stoops ever lower and becomes increasingly dangerous for Israel supporters in the UK
• Whose idea was it to have an anti-Zionist and a Muslim Brotherhood supporter put Israel's case to the Cambridge Union?

Margaret Hodge: a case study in why appeasing antisemites with anti-Israel rhetoric does not work

Many prominent British Jews who are currently most vocal in 'challenging' antisemitism in the Labour Party turn out to be people who also have a record of appeasement to antisemites in the sense of either a) strident anti-Israel rhetoric; or b) simply disassociating themselves from Israel.

These attitudes actually lead to increased antisemitism since it empowers antisemites to spew antisemitism under the guise of anti-Zionism (they can say 'Zionists are baby-killers' instead of 'Jews are baby-killers' and, in defence, can point to prominent Jews who promote that message). But, interestingly, it is also the case that all the sycophantic appeasing does not actually make the antisemites like you any better.

There is no better example of this than the MP Margaret Hodge. She has been consistent in promoting lies and blood libels against the Jewish State. Here's a reminder of the despicable statement she issued last year after continued unprovoked violent attacks by Palestinians at the Gaza border fence against Israel (contrary to what she said even the Palestinians later admitted that almost all those killed were armed Hamas terrorists):

Did it do her any good? Did it protect her personally from antisemitic attacks? Clearly not based on this tweet she posted in March 2019:

(note the anguish at being treated this way despite stressing her 'opposition to Israel'). And things have got much worse as indicated by what she tweeted last week:

Did she ever apologize for pushing the anti-Israel blood libels? No*

Another obvious example of this is ex-comedian, 'as a Jew' David Baddiel. He was always proud to promote his anti-Israel credentials. Now he also claims to be leading the fight against antisemitism ...and moaning about the antisemitic abuse he gets for it.

See also:

• Britain’s Media, Politicians and Jewish leaders STILL perplexed at increase in antisemitism 

*Several others like Stephen Pollard were quick to push the same blood libel, but at least had the decency to apologize when it was later proved false. But, of course, a large proportion of Hodge's constituents are Muslims. Also, we are not allowed to say that there is a special problem with Muslim antisemitism. Indeed, simply raising the issue of Muslim antisemitism in France led to several of the 'prominent Jews fighting antisemitism' to call me a racist on twitter.

Britain's pathetic Jewish leadership

Today I heard that a couple of brave supporters of Israel (Jonathan Hoffman and Damon Lenszner) were issued with arrest warrants under clearly trumped-up charges of assault. Although the warrants were subsequently rescinded they still have to appear in court in June. Anybody who, like these two, has attended demonstrations where the Israel haters are around will know that all of the intimidation and violence comes from the other side. And the Police and CPS routinely turn a blind eye to it such as when a Jewish lady in her 60s was brutally assaulted in October 2018.

Jonathan and Damon deserve the full support of the Jewish community - especially those in positions of influence who claim to be fighting antisemitism. I was hoping to find some words of support from such people today, but instead we got exactly the opposite in the form of a despicable headline in the Jewish Chronicle (which was only changed after several hours). Meanwhile, those of influence in the Jewish community are, as usual ignoring this story of Jews in genuine need of support and instead batting for the opposition under the GUISE of fighting antisemitism. For example, we have the Board of Deputies accusing friends who use the term 'cultural marxism' of being antisemites; and similarly we have people like Simon Myerson QC accusing friends who use the term 'Soros money' of being antisemites (I had a twitter exchange with this pompous jerk this morning over this).

It is hardly surprising therefore that, despite all the publicity about antisemitism in the UK, the level of antisemitism (and especially that based around lies about Israel) continues to increase.  Lavishly funded organisations like the Board of Deputies now simply pay lip service to their duty to fight antisemitism and support Israel. While they have abdicated their responsibility in favour of political correctness and fighting 'Islamophobia', it is left to heroic individuals like Jonathan and Damon to defend Israel on the streets, Harry Markham in Universities and David Collier to do the in-depth research exposing antisemites. 

It is also very sad to report that even Rachel Riley - who has been brilliant in exposing and challenging genuines antisemites - has jumped on to the politically correct bandwagon of assuming that anybody critical of Soros or supportive of Tommy Robinson is a racist. She is now spending her time trying to get companies to boycott advertising on sites that she calls 'fake news'. While one of the sites targeted (the Canary) is a genuinely antisemitic site  -most of the others seem to be conservative pro-Israel sites like Rebel Media and TR.News.  It's an appalling censorship route to go down. It is especially ironic that she is using BBC articles to 'prove' some of these sites are 'fake news' sites on the basis that they have at some point published a 'fake news' story.

See also
Soros says working under the Nazi occupation was the happiest year of his life (note the full context of his quotes is provided here)

Meet a typical 'great friend of the Jewish community': Wes Streeting MP

Noticed that Wes Streeting was one of the speakers recently at Limmud. Seems there is no Jewish community event where he is not invited. No surprise as he certainly fits in perfectly well with the leftists who now dominate the Board of Deputies. But it is important to note that even the previous BoD Head Jonathan Arkush - who was genuinely pro-Israel - was taken for a ride by Wes Streeting.

Antisemitism - it's really simple but there are consequences of not 'getting it'

Since almost ALL modern antisemitism is camouflaged as anti-Zionism it's amazing how even most Jewish people don't seem to understand this ....

But of course many of those who claim to be fighting antisemitism don't get it because they still insist antisemitism has nothing to do with Israel. Hence we have these consequences:

See:
Why the Corbyn row is leading to more antisemitism

Why the Corbyn antisemitism row is leading to more antisemitism

British Jewry's pathetic 'leadership' (Board of Deputies, CST, JLC etc) still officially 'accepts' that anti-Zionism is not antisemitism and they still fail to challenge the constant stream of lies about Israel. Hence, the more Corbyn/Labour antisemitism is discussed, the more antisemitism it creates:

Previously:

Message to British Jews about antisemitism

Next time CST or Board of Deputies tell you who are our enemies remember this weekend

While Britain's 'official leadership' in the CST, Board of Deputies, JLC,  etc. continue to work with leftist and Islamist 'anti-racist' organisations who seek to destroy Israel and close down free speech, Tommy Robinson continues to risk his life to support free speech, highlight the dangers that Islam poses to all in the UK (especially Jews) and supports Israel. And Britain's 'official leadership' continues to warn that it is Tommy Robinson who is our enemy. Don't accept their lies any longer.

 And the same goes for the Jewish Chronicle and Jewish News. Hypocrites and liars all of them.

Yachad perpetuates another blood libel against Israel

Even ignoring the choice of guest speaker at an annual gala for an organisation that still laughingly claims it is 'pro-Israel' this is really appalling....

Update: When I commented about this on the Yachad Facebook advert for the event look what response I got:

And look at the response from one of their goons to another person's comment (this was not me who commented):

See more on Yachad

Everything wrong with CST can be seen by looking at their website blog

This is a natural follow-on from my recent postings about the pathetic ineptitude of Britain's 'official Jews' in combating antisemites (almost all of which is now antisemitism disguised as 'anti-Zionism').

See also:

• More on a typical British debate on Israel
• How not to respond to antisemites
• CST: part of the problem rather than the solution 
• Britain's 'official Jews' go full dhimmi mode. 

More on a typical British debate on Israel

Following on from my post yesterday, here is a further simple summary. There's really no need to ever listen to, or watch, a 'debate about Israel/Palestine' as it always follows this pathetic route. The 'trembling Israelite' response and what it should be.

See also: How not to respond to antisemites

How NOT to respond to antisemites claiming 'only to be against Israeli government'

Every day in the main stream media we hear antisemites 'people opposed to the Israeli government'  spew hatred and lies against Israel and say "it is not antisemitic to point these things out". 

In Britain - if any response at all is offered - it is usually in the form of an apologetic 'Jewish spokesperson' who, instead of challenging the lies about Israel, says meekly: "It is antisemitic to blame British Jews for the actions of the Israeli government".  

This short video explains what the response should be. Update: see more on this here.

Jewish charity Norwood and its tie-up with Islamic Relief

UPDATED 2 Set 2017: See the graphic below of the actual shop at Selfridges

So, following on from CST's endorsement of a video promoting the "Free Gaza" (i.e. death to Israel) symbolism (see also image below) -  all in the name of 'community cohesion' and 'combating Islamophobia'  -  we now have another Jewish charity - the excellent Norwood -  teaming up 'in solidarity with' Islamic Relief at Selfridges presumably with the same naive intent (hat tip to Ambrosine Yolande Shitrit for both of these stories). I am sure there are many suitable Muslim charities that Norwood could have teamed up with. Unfortunately, Islamic Relief is not one of them.

Islamic Relief is a British-based 'charity' that has long been accused of involvement in terrorism as reported here. In 2006 the Israeli Government outlawed Islamic Relief Worldwide (IRW) from its work in Judea and Samaria,  declaring that it was "designed to further Hamas's ideology among the Palestinian population" and in 2014 claimed that the 'charity' was involved in sending cash to Hamas.
In 2014 HSBC cut its ties with IRW due to concerns over its terrorist links.  Even the United Arab Emirates banned IRW because of its terrorist links.

While IRW has denied the links with Hamas, what is certain is that the 'charity' has a disproportionate obsession with 'Palestine'. Two of its 'current' appeals are devoted to 'Palestine' and 'Gaza'. While IRW is banned from operating in the West Bank it still operates extensively in Gaza where Hamas controls all money that comes in.  The IRW web pages also push the standard exaggerations and blood libels against Israel such as:

The most recent conflict in Gaza saw thousands of innocent civilians lose their lives – including six-year-old Ismail Bakir, who was hit by a rocket and instantly killed when he was playing on the beach, not far from home where his mother was.

(The claim of  "thousands of innocent civilians" is a proven lie as is the implied claim that an Israeli rocket killed a child on the beach).

I was trying to find out what proportion of IRW's funding ends up in Gaza (i.e. under Hamas control). What is very interesting is that their audited annual reports - on this web page

 http://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/about-us/annual-reports/

are not available. If you click on any of the links (to the pdf reports) you get this:

Given that Norwood made the decision to team up with Islamic Relief I would have expected the minimum due diligence would have involved a) checking the charity was not implicated in terrorism; and b) checking the charity's annual reports. Clearly neither of these happened. So who is responsible for this fiasco which brings more shame to the so-called 'Jewish leadership' in Britain?

2 Sept Update: Here is the actual shop at Selfridges. It is pretty clear which 'charity' is driving this event - but why are the other charities 'in solidarity with' Islamic Relief? And it gets worse. If you go the the Artangel & Miranda website for the event, scroll down and click on "Distributing the Proceeds Read More" you literally draw a blank.....

And here is the Credits Page on the ArtAngel website: Nice to know that UK taxpayers (via the Arts Council and Lottery) are also funding this.

The CST madness:

The following text from Douglas Murray's excellent book "The Strange Death of Europe" (in which he is talking about a novel by Michel Houellebecq) perfectly sums up the 'Jewish leadership' and political elite response to the Islamist threat:

Links

• https://www.artangel.org.uk/project/interfaith-charity-shop/
• https://www.facebook.com/ambrosine.shitrit/posts/10155603905771774
• https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3792/islamic-relief-worldwide-terrorism
• http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hsbc-snaps-ties-islamic-relief-over-terror-fears-1535825
• https://www.globalmbwatch.com/islamic-relief/
• http://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/exclusive-british-muslim-charity-takes-israel-to-court/
• https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/charity-banned-over-links-to-terrorism-hnj7rdr3qpz
• http://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/about-us/annual-reports/
• http://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/category/current-appeals/page/2/
• http://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/current-appeals/rebuild-gaza/
• http://www.islamic-relief.org.uk/current-appeals/palestine-emergency-appeal/
• https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/aug/31/miranda-july-curates-interfaith-charity-shop-opening-in-selfridges
• https://www.facebook.com/groups/863332077033168/permalink/1653775837988784/

How the media must react when a public figure makes a comment about "Jews"

Following on from the ludicrous campaign of harassment against Kevin Myers, which in turn follows the campaign against Katie Hopkins et al, I thought it would be useful to provide this flowchart to make things easy for the main stream media and left-wing Jews.

In addition to Kevin Myers and Katie Hopkins, people down the left-hand side of the chart include the likes of Donald Trump, Steve Bannon, Tommy Robinson, Geerd Wilders, Milo Yiannopoulos.

People down the left-hand side of the chart include just about every left-wing politician and Muslim commentator in the world.

Previous graphic:

Another day of terrorist supporting Muslim Jew-hatred in Central London (updated with video of flag burning)

Here is a video of the flag burning (to chants of Allah Akhbar) with credit to organizers Sharon Klaff and flag owner @Ambrosine Yolanda Shitrit

And this one (by Ruptly) is even clearer (note the child stamping on the Israeli flag):

Background to the demo:

Jewish Voice: the group trying to silence Tommy Robinson is yet another socialist anti-Israel front claiming it is 'pro-Israel', 'pro-peace'

In the face of an Islamist terror campaign and a wave of antisemitism (much of it from the extreme left) yet another group claiming to speak for British Jews has declared that the real threat to Britain and its Jews is ....Tommy Robinson. Here is their twitter statement of 27 June:

On their twitter page yesterday they announced they were 'launching a social media campaign to fight Tommy Robinson' which included the lie that 'Tommy Robinson is no friend of the Jews'. Tommy himself responded with this:

I'm not going to repeat here why Jewish Voice (and much of the main stream media) are so completely wrong about Tommy Robinson - you can see the links or just read what Brian John Thomas wrote about Tommy's trip to Israel last year.  My focus here is to expose who Jewish Voice are and why it is they who are a danger to British Jews.

Their mission statement ("About us") says

A group of people brought together by the Jeremy Corbyn movement for leadership of the Labour party has united to develop a Jewish community project to give a voice to socialist and progressive Jewish values.

They go on to say

..we feel that it is important to give voice to the alternative, socialist view from our community.

but as with most 'socialists' they do not feel that others have the same right to a voice or viewpoint that is different from theirs. Hence, their campaign to silence critics of Islam. Indeed, based on their twitter page their mission statement seems to have changed to 'fighting Islamophobia':

And, inevitably, they also support the BDS campaign to boycott Israel even though their two co-founders Yonatan Higgsmith and Moshe Ariel claim to be 'pro-Israel' as well as 'pro-Palestinian'. 

In fact, like those other 'pro-Israel, pro-Palestine' leftist organisations Yachad and JStreet, everything they do and say with respect to Israel actually involves its deligitimization while ignoring Palestinian terrorism. But Jewish Voice seem to have more in common with the openly anti-Zionist (and some would argue antisemitic) 'Jewish Voice for Peace'.

To get a feel for why they are a danger for British Jews take a look at this video of Moshe Ariel on the BBC. In a segment about the boycott Israel campaign he was on - literally - as the "Jewish voice". Except .... he actually says he supports the boycott (but only disagrees with some of the campus tactics used):

(incidentally this is a standard BBC tactic when discussing Israel; they typically have a panel of hostile speakers that is 'balanced' by a Jewish or Israeli speaker who also just happens to be either highly critical of Israel or an open anti-Zionist).  

And if that isn't bad enough check out this article on the J Voice website by Ariel after the heinous terrorist attack in Jerusalem in January in which a 'Palestinian' ISIS supporter continually ran over and killed 4 young cadets (including three young girls). Ariel argued that this was not an act of terrorism:

"Arguing that it is not terrorism may be controversial, but it shouldn’t be. ....Acts of violence in Israel/Palestine, are very different to similar acts of violence carried out in Europe and the United States. Palestinian violence and the subsequent Israeli response is a result of the occupation"

Moshe Ariel is a student at Sheffield University - so anybody who is a student there there needs to be aware of his agenda.

Like Ariel, Yonatan Higgsmith also claims to be a "Palestinianist" who is also a "Zionist"  citing the fact that his views are really not much different to the Meretz party in Israel. But, he also states his loyalty to Jeremy Corbyn and his commitment to Corbyn's statement on Palestine which, while making ludicrous demands on Israel, fails to call out Palestinian terrorism and incitement. It is important to note that Higgsmith is active with Limmud the mainstream Jewish organisation that claims it is 'dedicated to Jewish learning' but which increasingly pushes a hard-left, anti-Zionist message to naive, ill-informed participants at their events.

It is not clear whether 'Jewish Voice' is much more than just Ariel and Higgsmith, but they do have 10,500 twitter followers. And, as is evidenced from Ariel's BBC appearance, being critical of Israel in the UK always provides them a platform and respect denied to others.

See also:

• Tale of two books
• Tommy Robinson in Israel (response to the Jewish Chronicle)
• Police persecution of Tommy Robinson continues 
• Yachad indoctrination
• Rules and Guidelines for reporting on the Middle East 

Britain's 'official Jews' go full dhimmi mode

The Board of Deputies and CST are imploring Jews to show their respect at the Regent's Park Mosque this evening (note this is NOT satire). This was sent by a Manager at the BoD.

That would be this Regent's Park Mosque (quoted from Guardian article):

At the Islamic bookstore at Regent's Park Mosque in central London, DVDs of a preacher called Sheikh Yasin are sold. In one DVD, Yasin, who is promoted on the mosque's website, accuses missionaries from the World Health Organisation and Christian groups of putting the 'Aids virus' in the medicine of African people, 'which is a conspiracy'.
Another DVD on sale features Sheikh Feiz, a Saudi-trained preacher. Feiz says: 'Kaffir is the worst word that can ever be written, a sign of infidelity, disbelief, filth, a sign of dirt.'
In a statement the company that runs the bookstore said: 'We sell and supply a wide range of material and we do not necessarily agree with it. It is totally unfair to blame [us] for any of the views expressed in these lectures.'

This is all about pushing the Muslim victim/Islamophobia narrative as a cover for the inconvenient fact of Islamic terrorism. In case anybody thinks this is harmless they should read this article. People who attend or support this kind of event may be doing so in good faith but ultimately they are part of the problem.

See also:

• Manchester attack - media follows script again
• Manchester - what happens next
• Theresa May and the Manchester attack - what might have been